Shanghai University Leagues Forum for International Young Scholars – Materials Frontier @ Shanghai University

About the Forum

Materials form the fundament for human society. A new generation of materials may create a new generation of equipment, at the same time, lead to a new generation of industry development. Novel frontier materials can be an important driver for the strategic emerging industries. Shanghai University Leagues Forum for International Young Scholars Materials Frontier @ SHU, promoted by the construction of Science and Innovation Center in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta, will provide exchange opportunities on the cutting-edge achievements and development trends in materials fields, gather international outstanding scientists and engineers, build a world-class academic interaction platform to motivate idea collision and research cooperation.

The forum will invite renowned international young scholars using online “cloud TALK” on November 20th, 2021, to exchange the latest research trends, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and facilitate development of materials science and technology.

About Shanghai University

Being a municipal university included in national “Project 211”, SHU is jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. SHU is among the first batch of pilot projects of high-level university construction in Shanghai, and is one of the universities that focus on building their preponderant disciplines into first-rate ones on the list of the Ministry of Education.

SHU presently has 19 centers for post-doctoral studies, 24 first-class disciplines doctor’s degree conferring programs, 2 second-class disciplines doctor’s degree conferring programs (not covering first-class disciplines), 8 doctor stations for inter-disciplines, 43 first-class disciplines master’s degree conferring programs, 1 second-class disciplines master’s conferring programs (not covering first-class disciplines), 22 master degree categories and 94 undergraduate majors; it boasts a complete range of disciplines, covering Philosophy, Economics, Law, Literature, History, Engineering, Management, and Arts; it has 4 national key disciplines, 4 Type III peak disciplines at the municipal level, leads construction of 1 Type IV peak discipline in Shanghai, 10 Type I plateau disciplines at the municipal level and 6 Type II plateau disciplines at the municipal level, with 10 disciplines among the top 1% of ESI rankings.

SHU has 1 State Key Laboratory, 1 training base of State Key Laboratory, 1 international united laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 3 bases under the “Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation” (111 Project), 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 2 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 2 collaborative innovation centers in Shanghai, 7 key laboratories in Shanghai, 6 engineering and technological research centers in Shanghai, 5 specialized technical service platforms in Shanghai, 3 key laboratories in Shanghai universities and 1 engineering research center in Shanghai universities.

Upholding the motto of “making unremitting efforts; being concerned about the country and the people before anything else” and the spirit of “pursuing the truth and innovation”, SHU will strive to build itself into a world-class comprehensive research-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.

About School of Materials Science and Engineering

School of Materials Science and Engineering (SMSE) of Shanghai University has two first-level disciplines, “Materials Science and Engineering” and “Metallurgical Engineering”, and a State Key Laboratory of “Advanced Special Steel”. SMSE has 6 academicians, more than 20 national high-level talents and nearly 50 provincial and ministerial high-level talents. Based on the goal of supporting innovation-driven development strategies and serving the development of economy and society, SMSE built several high-level research teams and optimized discipline constructions to meet the needs of major strategic plans of the Yangtze River Delta , Shanghai and the whole country.

The Materials Genome Institute (MGI) of Shanghai University started in early 2012. MGI has well-equipped laboratory facilities and outstanding faculty members, including 5 academicians (4 part-time) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), 1 chief scientists of national 973 Projects, 4 distinguished young scholars of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and a large number of young scholars with doctoral degrees. In recent years, the materials genomics research of Shanghai University has been accelerating the research and development concept of materials such as “high degree of integration, integration of data and computing, research and application”, and has accumulated a great deal in scientific research, team building, platform architecture and personnel training. A lot of basic work has been done on database construction, integrated computing and software development, structural and physical representation, service and failure.

Subforum Theme

Attending scholars will focus on the frontiers of development in the fields of materials science and engineering, discussing research hotspots and key technical problems in both academia and industries.

Topic 1: Advanced Metallic Materials and Engineering

Topic 2: Metallurgical Engineering and Technology

Topic 3: Functional Materials and Technology

Topic 4: Soft Matter and Devices

Topic 5: Materials Genome Engineering and Materials data

Targets of Invitation

• Excellent young scholars who received doctor’s degrees, boast two consecutive years of research experience or above.
• Excellent post-doctors (2-3 years of experience as post-doctors).
• Excellent young scholars with official teaching or research positions in universities, scientific research institutions or enterprise research divisions.

How to apply

Those who intend to attend the forum are expected to send the CV (from bachelor degree,with personal photo attached) and report abstract to maggie2785@shu.edu.cn(SMSE) or qianyingyu@t.shu.edu.cn(MGI) before November 10, 2021 with marking “International Young Scholars Forum” on the e-mail.

After reviewing the qualification of the applicants, SHU will send official invitation letters to qualified ones before November 15, 2021.

Contact person at the School of Materials Science & Engineering：

CHEN Jianping: 18621182785 maggie2785@shu.edu.cn

YANG Yuzheng: 13122808332 yangyuzheng@shu.edu.cn

YU Qianying: 15202158970 qianyingyu@t.shu.edu.cn

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